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• Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Guilt, Doe, Protection

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• The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Secret, Vices, Likes

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• Imagine, a September 11 with weapons of mass destruction. It's not 3,000. It's tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Children, Men, Innocent Man

  "Face the Nation" with Bob Schieffer, www.cbsnews.com. September 9, 2002.

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• Louis Malle was the best filmmaker I've ever worked with. He was such an artist. He was dealing with the theme of innocence and experience.

  Brooke Shields

  Artist, Innocence And Experience, Theme

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• Everyone is innocent unless proven otherwise.

  Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

  Innocent, Proven

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• I think that freshness and that innocence is something that is missing from a lot of female singers. I'm certainly not denying that I'm young, but I'm not fluff.

  Jessica Simpson

  Thinking, Missing, Female

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There was no more good or evil in this world than we imagine there to be, either out of greed or out of innocence. Or sometimes madness.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Evil, Greed, World

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• To be godless is probably the first step to innocence," he said, "to lose the sense of sin and subordination, the false grief for things supposed to be lost." So by innocence you mean not an absence of experience, but an absence of illusions." An absence of need for illusions," he said. "A love of and respect for what is right before your eyes.

  Anne Rice

  Grief, Mean, Eye

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• We lost our innocence in the Fall, and our turn to it is through the Redemption which was brought about by Christ's death and by our slow participation in it. Sentimentality is a skipping of this process in its concrete reality and an early arrival at a mock state of innocence, which strongly suggests its opposite.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Fall, Reality, Opposites

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• No matter how close we are to another person, few human relationships are as free from strife, disagreement, and frustration as is the relationship you have with a good dog. Few human beings give of themselves to another as a dog gives of itself. I also suspect that we cherish dogs because their unblemished souls make us wish - consciously or unconsciously - that we were as innocent as they are, and make us yearn for a place where innocence is universal and where the meanness, the betrayals, and the cruelties of this world are unknown.

  Dean Koontz

  Relationship, Dog, Betrayal

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• ...I had to point at Hanna. But the finger I pointed at her turned back to me. I had loved her. I tried to tell myself that I had known nothing of what she had done when I chose her. I tried to talk myself into the state of innocence in which children love their parents. But love of our parents is the only love for which we are not responsible. ...And perhaps we are responsible even for the love we feel for our parents.

  Bernhard Schlink

  Children, Parent, Done

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• Maybe I don't really want to know what's going on. Maybe I'd rather not know. Maybe I couldn't bear to know. The Fall was a fall from innocence to knowledge.

  Margaret Atwood

  Fall, Want, Bears

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.195, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• their powerlessness, innocence, and imagination fused to enable them to turn time inside out, travel on the wind, and enter the souls of animals.

  Mark Helprin

  Animal, Wind, Imagination

  Mark Helprin (1989). “Winter's Tale”, Pocket Books

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• There are no moments more painful for a parent than those in which you contemplate your child's perfect innocence of some imminent pain, misfortune, or sorrow. That innocence (like every kind of innocence children have) is rooted in their trust of you, one that you will shortly be obliged to betray; whether it is fair or not, whether you can help it or not, you are always the ultimate guarantor or destroyer of that innocence.

  Michael Chabon

  Children, Pain, Parenting

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• I'm going to search for my star until I find it. It's hidden in the drawer of innocence, wrapped in a scarf of wonder.

  Michael Jackson

  Stars, Scarves, Wonder

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• And that's what innocence is. It's simple and trusting like a child, not judgmental and committed to one narrow point of view. If you are locked into a pattern of thinking and responding, your creativity gets blocked. You miss the freshness and magic of the moment. Learn to be innocent again, and that freshness never fades.

  Michael Jackson

  Children, Creativity, Simple

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• In their innocence, very young children know themselves to be light and love. If we will allow them, they can teach us to see ourselves the same way.

  Michael Jackson

  Children, Light, And Love

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• Innocence, Once Lost, Can Never Be Regained. Darkness, Once Gazed Upon, Can Never Be Lost.

  John Milton

  Darkness, Lost

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• The talk of pale, burning-eyed students, anarchists and utopians all, over tea and cigarettes in a locked room long past midnight, is next morning translated, with the literalness of utter innocence, into the throwing of the bomb, the shouting of the proud slogan, the dragging away of the young dreamer-doer, still smiling, to the dungeon and the firing squad.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Morning, Past, Squad

  Christopher Isherwood, Don Bachardy, James P. White (1989). “Where Joy Resides: An Isherwood Reader”, Vintage

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• Unicorns are not to be forgiven." The magician felt himself growing giddy with jealousy, not only of the touch but of something like a secret that was moving between Molly and the unicorn. "Unicorns are for beginnings," he said, "for innocence and purity, for newness. Unicorns are for young girls." Molly was stroking the unicorn's throat as timidly as though she were blind. She dried her grimy tears on the white mane. "You don't know much about unicorns," she said.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Girl, Moving, White

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• we have to listen to the child we once were, the child who still exists inside us. That child understands magic moments. We can stifle its cries, but we cannot silence its voice.The child we once were is still there. Blessed are the children, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.If we are not reborn if we cannot learn to look at life with the innocence and the enthusiasm o childhood it makes no sense to go on living.

  Paulo Coelho

  Children, Blessed, Magic Moments

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• My innocence is a dying flower

  Tite Kubo

  Flower, Dying

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• Everything good is costly, and the development of the personality is one of the most costly of all things. It will cost you your innocence, your illusions, your certainty. (10)

  Sheldon B. Kopp

  Personality, Cost, Development

  SHELDON B KOPP (1972). “IF YOU MEET THE BUDDHA ON THE ROAD KILL HIM THE PILGRIMAGE OF PSYCHOTHERAPY PATIENTS”

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• If I could, Sister James, I would certainly choose to live in innocence. But innocence can only be wisdom in a world without evil. Situations arise and we are confronted with wrongdoing and the need to act.

  John Patrick Shanley

  Evil, Needs, World

  John Patrick Shanley (2008). “Doubt (movie tie-in edition)”, p.30, Theatre Communications Group

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• Flea-Market vendors are frozen mid-haggle. Middle-aged women are frozen in the middle of their lives. The gavels of frozen judges are frozen between guilt and innocence. On the ground are the crystals of the frozen first breaths of babies, and those of the last gasps of the dying.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Baby, Judging, Guilt

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